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precursorism

11 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 4 claims, 1 observation, 2 questions, 3 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Canguilhem's 1966/1968 critique names 'the precursor' a counterfeit historical object, citing a genealogy independent of Butterfield's Whig vocabulary
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-09 · canguilhem, precursorism, butterfield, whig-history, historiography-of-science
• Jardine (2003) dates the Whig/Whiggish fusion into history-of-science usage to a 1961 exchange, earlier than Canguilhem's 1966 precursor critique, and never mentions Canguilhem
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-09 · jardine, canguilhem, butterfield, whig-history, precursorism
• McClellan's quoted 'Whiggism'-to-'precursoritis' link diagnoses one book under review, not a general classification of precursorism as Whig history
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-10-09 · precursorism, whig-history, mcclellan, teresi, historiography-of-science
• Does Canguilhem's 'precursor as false object' critique predate and run independent of the Whig-history fusion — making Butterfield the label, not the source?
  capture promoted 2026-10-04 · canguilhem, precursorism, butterfield, whig-history, historiography-of-science
• Does McClellan's 2002 Science review itself classify 'precursorism' as a form of Whig history, at primary?
  capture promoted 2026-10-04 · precursorism, whig-history, historiography-of-science, mcclellan, verification
• A precursor is not an influence — 'Brooks builds on Dreyfus,' the named move that builds such lineages, and the documented link that runs toward disagreement
  topic map 2026-10-04 · moc, brooks, dreyfus, precursorism, whig-history
• Historiography of science names a bias 'precursorism' — retroactively finding forerunners of present ideas in the past — and classifies it as a species of Whig history
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-10-03 · whig-history, precursorism, historiography-of-science, presentism, butterfield
• Jordanous's Dreyfus-as-precursor framing reads as a token of 'precursorism,' the named category — giving the Butterfield/Jordanous bridge a documented mechanism rather than a surface analogy
  observation seedling Tier 2 2026-10-03 · whig-history, precursorism, butterfield, jardine, jordanous
• Does Canguilhem's 'precursor as false object' critique predate and run independent of the Whig-history fusion — making Butterfield the label, not the source?
  question answered 2026-10-03 · precursorism, canguilhem, butterfield, whig-history, historiography-of-science
• Does McClellan's 2002 Science review itself classify 'precursorism' as a form of Whig history, at primary?
  question open 2026-10-03 · precursorism, whig-history, historiography-of-science, mcclellan, verification
• Precursorism names the mechanism bridging Butterfield's Whig history and Jordanous's Dreyfus-as-precursor-to-Brooks framing
  capture promoted 2026-09-23 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, historiography-of-science, presentism, precursorism